Attachment for window-shades



No Model.)

N. J. FELIX: ATTACHMENT FOR WINDOW SHADES.

I/VVE/VTOI? Patented Feb. 9, 1897.

WITNESSES:

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NUMA J. FELIX, OF BROOKLYN, NETV YORK.

ATTACHMENT FOR WINDOW-SHADES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,840, dated February 9, 1897. Application filed October 21,1896- Serlal No. 609,528. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: resents the shade-roller which is applied to 50 Be it known that I, NUMA J. FELIX, a citithe usual fixtures arranged at the upper part zen of the United States, residing in Brooklyn, of the casing.

county of Kings, and State of New York, have My invention consists in a rigid and fixed invented certain new and useful Improveattachment, which is applied directlyto the ments in Attachments for VVindow-Shades, of shade-stick S, preferably at the mid-length 55 which the following is a specification. thereof, and is composed of two hemispherical This invention relates to an improved ator other suitably-shaped buffer-sections or tachment for window-shades, the object of the knobs C C, of wood, soft rubber, or any other same being to prevent the overwinding of the suitable material, preferably rubber, which shade under the action of its spring, as when are respectively applied to opposite sides of 60 the shade slips from the hand, so that it can the mid-length of the shade-stick. These be readily returned into any desired lowered buifer-sections or knobs O O are rigidly fixed position without having to pass the stick to the stick by means of a bolt D, which-is I 5 around the roller, by which the guard-cord passed through the centers of the buffer-secthat is attached to the stick at the lower end tions or knobs and through the stick, said 65 of the shade can be entirely dispensed with bolt having at one end an eye d, to which may by means of a very simple, cheap, and durabe attached a cord 6, which is provided with ble attachment applied directly to the stick. the usual tassel or other suitable ornament f.

To these ends the invention consists of an Referring particularly to Fig. 3, it will be attachment for window-shades, which comseen that when the shade springs accidentally 7o prises two buffer-sections or knobs which are from the hand and is rapidly wound around rigidly applied, respectively, to opposite sides the roller D the buffer-sections or knobs O O of the stick at the lower end of the shade, at the opposite sides of the shade-stick will said buffer-sections being connected by means come in contact, respectively, with the woundof a suitable screw-bolt to which the tassel is up portion of the shade and with the top of 75 applied, and adapted, when the shade is accithe casing, so that the shade-stick cannot be dentally released and drawn quickly up under drawn under the action of the spring-roller the action of its spring, to come in contact through the space above the shade-roller,

with the part of the shade wound around the which is smaller than the dimensions of the roller and with the upper part of the windowbutter-sections and shade-stick combined. 80 casing, the space above the shade-roller being As the attachment is very simple and conless in dimensions than the entire thickness sists of few parts, it will readily be seen that of the two buffer-sections or knobs and the the contact of the same with the casing and I 3 5 stick to which the same are applied, as will the shade will not mar or otherwise impart an be hereinafter described and then particuunsightly disfiguration to the casing. The 85 larly claimed. attachment, being very simple, is not liable In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 to become detached, and as it consists of so represents a front elevation of a windowfew parts it can be made very cheaply, so that shade provided with myimproved attachment it can be placed within the reach of all.

for preventing the overwinding of the same. Having thus described my invention, what 0 Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2 2, Fig. 1, I claim is drawn on a somewhat larger scale. Fig. 3 is a 1. The combination,wi th a spring-actuated similar section showing the practical use of window-shade, of an attachment consisting the attachment in preventing the overwindof buffer-sections applied rigidly to the shadeing of the shade, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged stick, said buffer-sections being adapted to 5 transverse section through the shade-stick prevent overwinding of the shade, substanand the louder-sections and knobs. tially as set forth.

A represents the window-casing, and 13 rep- 2. T he herein described attachment for shades, consisting of buffer-sections adapted In testimony that I claim the foregoing as to be applied to the opposite sides of the shademy invention I have signed my name in presstick, and a screw-bolt passing through said ence of two subscribing Witnesses. buffer-sections and through the shade-stick, NUMA J. FELIX. and provided with means for the suspension lVitnesses:

of the tassel or other ornament, substantially PAUL GOEPEL,

as set forth. GEO. W. JAEKEL. 

